{"id":9310,"date":"2010-02-11T03:21:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/02\/lt-info-eyes-firms-india-abroad\/"},"modified":"2010-02-11T03:21:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T03:21:01","slug":"lt-info-eyes-firms-india-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/drishtikone\/2010\/02\/lt-info-eyes-firms-india-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"L&amp;T Info eyes firms in India, abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>L&amp;T Infotech, the technology arm of the engineering giant Larsen and Toubro (L&amp;T) is scouting for acquisitions in the country and abroad to scale up its business operations. The company was earlier in the race to acquire the fraud-hit Satyam Computer Services (now Mahindra Satyam) and was also reportedly in talks with the country\u2019s sixth-largest IT firm Patni Computer for an acquisition.<\/p>\n<p>Sudip Banerjee, CEO, L&amp;T Infotech told FE that the company is considering several Indian firms at the moment and could even go for a company which is bigger in size than its own. \u201cThe fact that we wanted to acquire Satyam proves our apetitie for big-ticket acquisitions,\u201d he said adding that scale and capabilities in new business models will be the two main drivers for the company\u2019s inorganic growth path. 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